US Ambassador to Belarus Julie Fisher stated that the athlete of Christina Timanovskaya was able to escape the humiliation and discredit due to the operational action of the authorities of Japan and Poland. She wrote about this in its twitter .
“Thanks to the operational actions of the authorities of Japan and Poland, Timanovskaya could doubt the attempts of the Lukashenko regime to discredit and humiliate her personal opinion,” the diplomat emphasized.
Earlier, the Executive Director of the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, Alexander Opeikin, said that Timanovskaya will fly out of Tokyo to Warsaw direct flight on August 4. On August 2, the athlete received a Polish visa.
On August 1, the coaching headquarters of the Belarusian team excluded Timanovskaya from a 200 meters race at the Olympics in Japan. The official reason was called the unsatisfactory emotional and psychological state of athletes. The opposition fund of sports solidarity stated that the athlete was forcibly exported from Tokyo. The girl appealed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) asking for help in the current situation.